Sushil Kumar

We have been hearing about Sushil Kumar and his victory at the common wealth games for some time now. It’s thrilling to know he took just 107 seconds to win over his opponent in the men’s freestyle 74kg category wrestling final.

 

The two time Olympic medal winner has set an inspiring story for us. He hailed from a very modest family, his father was a bus driver and mother was a housewife. He was inspired by his cousin to take up wrestling at a young age of 14.

 

His cousin had to quit wrestling because the family could support only one wrestler. I was very surprised to know that we have a wrestler with a vegetarian diet. I never could imagine a wrestler who actually won a trophy on a vegetarian diet! Kudos indeed!!

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He was one of Indians most decorated wrestlers having won a bronze twice in the year 2008 and 2009. But life was not a bed full of roses for Sushil, he was son of a bus driver who took up wrestling by chance.

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He chose wrestling as he was inspired by his cousin who could not make it due to lack of funds. Inspite of the minimal funds and poor conditions, Sushil went on to become State champion

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